Reading is more a means to promote the holistic development of an individual’s personality than a mere source of information.
Essay 095
• How appropriate does this statement sound to you?
• How do you look at the view that it is only a source of information?

History shows that reading has been instrumental to the making of many a great souls. So, when I look at the statement, I find that it is much more a means of an individual’s holistic development than a mere source of information.

History has it that man had developed scripts and started writing and reading much before the advent of printing itself. That is proof enough to show that reading as such is endowed with many merits. Might be, it is these merits that help incessant readers develop into a many sided personalities. For example, reading polishes one’s language, refines one’s thinking, makes one question things, encourages one to compare and, above all, one who reads voluminously is able to know the whole world in a vicarious manner.

When I look at reading, in a limited sense, it is just a means of information. This is much more so today that it was yesterday. In the past, people looked at reading as a great source of knowledge, a self learning exercise, and a noble pastime. But these days, people find it appropriate to take reading as a source of information. In a way, it is true too. However, there is much more to reading than what it brings in by way of information. What reading does is a kind of “transinformation”, let me take the liberty to coin a word.

Looking at reading as a means of holistic transformation and a source of information, I find that the former is much appropriate than the latter. Those who take it as a source of information may not know that it is right information that makes people transform themselves.

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